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US Airstrikes Kill 30 Taliban in s. Afghanistan: Army

Chamid Riyadi - Monday, 28 March 2016 - 01:46 WIB

Monday, 28 March 2016 - 01:46 WIB

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Photo: Anadolu Agency
Photo: Anadolu Agency

Photo: Anadolu Agency

Kabul, 18 Jumadil Akhir 1437/27 March 2016 (MINA) –  Thirty Taliban fighters were killed in two U.S. airstrikes carried out in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, a local Afghan army spokesman said Saturday.

According to spokesman Mohamed Rasul Zazai, U.S. warplanes struck two Taliban positions in Helmand’s Margie area, killing 20 militants in the first airstrike and another 10 in the second, Anadolu Agency quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

Speaking to reporters, Zazai said the second strike had targeted a bomb-making facility, although he refrained from revealing the nature of the first raid’s target.

The spokesman added that the airstrikes had been carried out in coordination with Afghan security forces deployed in the region, stressing that they had not resulted in any civilian casualties.

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Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, however, denied the army’s assertions, saying in a statement that all those killed in the twin U.S. airstrikes were civilians.  (T/P010R03)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)

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